Frazer Nash
Frazer Nash was a British manufacturer of sports cars and Formula 1 cars.
History
Archibald " Archie " Goodman Frazer Nash (June 30, 1889 - March 10, 1965, until 1938, he wrote with hyphen, Frazer - Nash ) founded the Frazer Nash Ltd.. Kingston- on-Thames in 1924, after his automobile company GN (Godfrey Nash ) had to be closed. First, the vehicles produced by him based on the old GN design. The former officer had brought with him from his previous Cyclecar production, the idea of a chain drive, which could be switched extremely fast.
The company was relatively quickly adopted by the brothers HJ and WH Adlington in Isleworth in 1926, they. AFN Ltd in renamed. These buildings are very popular, but nevertheless also quite spartan cars for sports car racing. The two-seater sports existed in unmistakable British style almost as a bare chassis and engine. It used engines Plus Power, Blackburn, Anzani, Meadows and Cough. From 1934 AFN was the BMW importer for the entire British Empire. The racers HJ Aldington, AFP Fane, Prince Bira, Dick Seaman were so many races very successful with the Frazer Nash BMW 328.
After the Second World War, called the company again in Frazer Nash to and worked closely with the Bristol works together. In Bristol, the BMW 328 engines were developed, which allows the carriage with riders like Roy Salvadori, Tony Crook and Stirling Moss were able to achieve considerable success in sports car racing.
1952 " freed " to some of the so-called Frazer Nash Le Mans Replicas of their bodies, and built on the basis of single-seater. In addition, the company also declared ready to construct purebred seaters.
One of the first models with Bristol- motor bought Peter Bells Scuderia Franera: Ken Wharton started with the hit during the 1952 Formula 1 season and finished the Grand Prix of Switzerland in Bern Bremgarten at a respectable fourth place - even if he had two rounds lagged. A week later, Wharton reached even a third place at the World Cup not to be counted Eifel Race at the Nürburgring. This in view of the economical financial commitment remarkable results were, as well as the sensational Targa Florio victory in 1951 by Franco Cortese, the privateers not convince you that into the car more potential would have and you had to be so under the revised technical sign of the withdraw 1950s in racing eventually, so another formula 1 copy was never used. The third model, the Tony Crook privately piloted at the Grand Prix in Silverstone, only took a disappointing 21th Place.
The production of Frazer -Nash cars was set in 1957.
Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market is " Frazer Nash " registered as a European brand since 2007 and registered since 2008.
Successor companies
Today (as of 2013) is Frazer - Nash, a group of companies owned by the Kamkorp holding company. The Group of companies include:
- Several companies for environmentally friendly drives Frazer - Nash Research
- Frazer - Nash Energy Systems
- Eco designs
The group of companies specializing in particular electric drive shapes. The vehicles of Bristol Cars and Metrocab whose production in 2011 and 2006, initially set to be converted to electric drive.